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The Instruction, Dignitas Connubii, On the Dignity of Marriage, was prepared and published by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts. It was meant to be helpful to judges and other ministers of Tribunals of the Church, to whom the sacred ministry of hearing the causes of nullity of marriage has been entrusted. This Canon Law Companion is meant to organize important sources which underlie the Instruction, into one, clear and convenient graph of information.

This tool would be most helpful to those in the Catholic Church whose ministry involves working with marriages and annulments. Dignitas Connubii is an Instruction issued by Pope Benedict XVI through the Pontifical Council of Legislative Texts in 2005, to achieve the fundamental unity of jurisprudence which matrimonial causes (Marriage Annulments) demand. It was based on a rich body of sources. This study and work tool diagrams in a simple reference graph, four of those sources:

The Code of Canon Law 1983 Pastor Bonus The Code of Canon Law 1917 Articles of Dignitas Connubii in cross-references

This reference tool takes one from individual Article to these sources, instantly and completely.